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Your Questions
Is Fake Pork Kosher?

Even if the Torah forbids a food, one is still permitted to eat kosher food artificially flavored to taste like it. However, if it closely resembles the non-kosher food, it may be necessary to mark it as an imitation.
What Does "Schmatta" ("Schmatte") Mean?

This Yiddish word (of Polish provenance) has taken on meanings in various areas of Jewish life.
By the Numbers
8 Facts About the Hebrew Month of Shevat

The sign for the month of Shevat is Aquarius, the waterbearer
Parshah
Have You Slaughtered Your Sheep Yet?

tie a sheep to your bed and leave it there for four days. It will be there when you go to sleep (good luck with that!) and when you get up.
Inside the Monster

He led them to the very feet of the giant, opened a secret door in the monster's big toe, took them up a winding passageway to its belly, and showed them how the thing works...
Story
"You Will Never Be the Czar's Soldier"

Like every eligible male in Czarist Russia, Peretz Chein eventually received a letter stating that he was required to show up at a conscription office.
Jewish News
Moshe Holtzberg Returns to Mumbai With Netanyahu to Unveil Living Memorial

New memorial space to educate and inspire visitors from around the world.
Terrorists Killed ‘The Angel Who Touched Me Forever’

The legacy of a 35-year-old rabbi murdered in a drive-by attack in Israel.
The Small Town Where Ukraine’s Jews Go to Gain Strength

In good times and bad, Jews have visited the resting place of Chabad’s founder in Haditch, Ukraine.
Video
Sign Up Now: The Heart of Prayer

Prayer can be one of the most confounding of spiritual practices. If it is a personal, meditative, soul experience, then why is so much of it dictated by formality and structured liturgy?
The Rebbe and the Best-Selling Author

The Rebbe vocally and repeatedly called for every individual to utilize his or her unique talents and abilities to help promote a spirit of G-dliness in the world.
Which Animals Are Kosher?
Which species of animals, birds, fish and vermin are kosher, and which are not?
Women
From the Mother of a Young Adult With Down Syndrome

What happens when that absolutely adorable baby becomes a young adult. What then?
Lifestyle
Spicy Vegan Lentil Bolognaise

A chassid is a lamplighter
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (1860-1920)
Print Magazine

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—that force is a single whole, and it is G‑d.

It is not all of G‑d. It is an expression of G‑d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothin...